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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm white, so take this for what it's worth.  But this seems to lack context.  It's for Black History Month, and the history taught is generally black American history right?  What African Americans have contributed to the country because these stories are so often absent from our regular history courses, etc.

So clothes, to me, are not the focus of Black History should be.  Dress like Mae Jemison or Katherine Johnson or Zora Neale Hurston or whomever.   But advertising it as an opportunity to wear traditional African garb seems reductive.    And it shows me there likely was no lead up to this with lessons and instruction.   And there should have been.    Don't do stuff like this in a vacuum.   Kids learn nothing, and they often mess up. [/quote]

In my school, we expanded to teach a Pan-Black History Month because our kids knew a lot about AA leaders and nothing about those in Africa or any Afro-Latinos. Our demographic is heavily immigrant so it has led to more interests from students than MLK and Rosa Parks.[/quote]

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